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| author | Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org> | 2001-05-02 20:39:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-05-02 15:55:53 +0000 |
| commit | b159ebd369026559ce72753bffc2fec6cafb7b23 (patch) | |
| tree | b5f657478268dddcdc0a835459d7e772d92c8a29 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | fd8cd3a3fe489fe70b00d1da7f9034bb1c56f03c (diff) | |
| download | perl-b159ebd369026559ce72753bffc2fec6cafb7b23.tar.gz | |
[DOC PATCH bleadperl] minor nits in perlop.pod
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 9cae3a2163..3def0ea1ea 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ The <> symbol will return C<undef> for end-of-file only once. If you call it again after this, it will assume you are processing another @ARGV list, and if you haven't set @ARGV, will read input from STDIN. -If angle brackets contain is a simple scalar variable (e.g., +If what the angle brackets contain is a simple scalar variable (e.g., <$foo>), then that variable contains the name of the filehandle to input from, or its typeglob, or a reference to the same. For example: @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ than because the latter will alternate between returning a filename and returning false. -It you're trying to do variable interpolation, it's definitely better +If you're trying to do variable interpolation, it's definitely better to use the glob() function, because the older notation can cause people to become confused with the indirect filehandle notation. |